Engineering with Rosie Barnes explains HVDC and underground and undersea cables. Including the Xlink from Morocco to the UK, Basslink Tasmania to Australia, and the longest, Australia to Singapore. She believes that all the continents will be linked. Says there are plans for undersea HVDC cables between the UK and Newfoundland. It’s a 13.5 min
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I constantly see the armchair BEV (battery electric vehicle) ‘experts’ badmouth hydrogen FCEVs. The hydrogen is 3X less efficient than BEVs, they claim. But the ICEVs (internal combustion engine vehicles) they’re now driving are less efficient than the hydrogen FCEVs! So why are these hypocrites complaining? Hydrogen has been *safely* generated, stored and transported in
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Too little, too late? Are we headed toward 2.5 deg. C?? We need to do a lot more! Just Have A Think YouTube video 13.7 min More information regarding EVs: Factcheck: 21 misleading myths about electric vehicles
Cost is the big problem. https://youtube.com/shorts/Q5N4iITVyL8?si=xHghVgvZ9Z2YHeUS
This is an experiment where he puts dry ice, frozen CO2, carbon dioxide into water that has a lot of calcium ions in it. At first the dry ice causes the water to turn milky, as the CO2 combines to form calcium carbonate. Calcium carbonate is the compound found in sea shells. The sea creatures
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This 26.5 min. YouTube video is overwhelming in the amount of activity that Spacex is doing to “Make the machines that make the rockets and launches”.
This chart shows the 9 Planetary Boundaries and how they have been breached. Some don’t look that alarming but *anything* past the green is bad. The Novel Entities is especially troubling. https://www.iasparliament.com/current-affairs/daily-news/breach-of-planetary-boundaries
If the Antarctic and Greenland ice melts, it will cause 10 meters of sea level rise. If the AMOC stops, it could throw Europe into a mini ice age. If the rainfall in the Amazon rainforest turns to drought there are large areas that would become savannah, and become a net carbon source. If the
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Ammonia from farms, along with NOx, make up 40% of PM2.5 air pollution in other developed countries. The people should cut back on meat and dairy consumption – eat meat once a week. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/04/ammonia-from-farms-behind-60-of-uk-particulate-air-pollution-study
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/portion-of-teslas-taxes-to-be-invested-into-community Some info from Joe T Patreon NEWS: Tesla has revealed a 120-acre Giga Texas ecological uplift project. Planting: Restoring natural habitats in historically depleted mining site Soil Amendment: Restructuring of depleted soil to bring into healthy state to support plant restoration Shallow Water Habitat Grading Water Usage
